Former Canadian PM Apologizes for ‘Rooting’ for Hurricane to Hit Mar-a-Lago – IOTW Report

Former Canadian PM Apologizes for ‘Rooting’ for Hurricane to Hit Mar-a-Lago

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Former Canadian prime minister Kim Campbell apologized Friday for a tweet that made light of Hurricane Dorian and expressed hope that it would hit President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida.

On Wednesday, Florida governor Ron DeSantis issued a state of emergency in anticipation of Hurricane Dorian, which is expected to make landfall early next week. The hurricane is currently projected to reach Category 4 status and speeds of 140 mph, making it the strongest storm to hit the peninsula since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

But in response to one tweet warning Floridians to prepare, Campbell, the former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, tweeted “I’m rooting for a direct hit on Mar a Lago [sic]!”

Campbell’s tweet was promptly criticized “What the heck is wrong with you,” asked one user. “There are real people who live and work there.”

But the former prime minister was defiant, insisting that she was making a point about climate change and telling that user “sorry you don’t get snark” and “Get a grip!” more here

19 Comments on Former Canadian PM Apologizes for ‘Rooting’ for Hurricane to Hit Mar-a-Lago

  1. Chretien, two Trudeaus, Campbell. Yep, “ox canada” sure knows how to show us how to govern properly. Maybe we should start considering a wall to the N too – with apologies to SCR North, Huron and some of my in-laws.

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  2. Her face reminds me of the British women laughing and talking that I like to imitate. You can’t understand a single word they say.

    Put a bag over it – and put it out with the cat.

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  3. Old joke.

    A guy says, there are only two types of of people who come from Canada; prostitutes and hockey players.

    His coworker harumphs and says ‘Sir. I’ll have you know that MY WIFE is Canadian!’

    Guy, trying to respond gracefully replies, ‘Really? What position does she play?’

    That’s my only Canada joke. Sorry. Not much else to say about America’s Hat.

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  4. To be fair, many of us say stuff like hopping an asteroid hits San Francisco…What if she said, I hope that hurricane hits Obama’s new mansion in Martha’s Vineyard? Would you cheer? or tell her to stfu?

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  5. Having grown up in Key West and living in South Louisiana for the last 40 years, I have been through Andrew, Gustave and Katrina and several more storms. She has on idea what she is wishing on the people in the storm’s path. I have a brother, a mother who are going to catch hell I pray for them and hope it doesn’t get into the gulf and hit the gulf coast. If you have ever seen a hurricane or a really bad thunder storm you will realize how much energy is generated. It is arrogant to believe that we as humans can have an affect on the climate

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  6. I thought she was dead. Seriously, after becoming the laughing stock of the political system by leading the Conservatives in a disasterous election campaign that moved them from a majority of 151 seats in parliament to only 2 she disappeared. In any event, she suffers from what far too many people (even most of my family) suffer from, a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. To be fair hers is a somewhat milder case than most TDS cases in that this may be the only time she’s been quoted in years and her tweet while very disrespectful is far less outright, vile and nasty then others I’ve read from politicians both retired and active. I suspect the only reason it made the news is that she once once (for however a short period) a foreign leader. At least she apologized, well sort of. Anyway she can now go back to the anonymity that she is clearly comfortable in.

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